Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] with the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shah Jehan , not contenting himself with the women he had in his palaces , forfeited the respect of his nobles by intrigues with their wives … |
| 2 | Even if the equation could be established , the beneficiaries are not the same or do not see themselves as the same : the patients paying two shillings for their bottles of medicine do not identify themselves with the patients admitted to hospital sooner or treated more efficiently . |
| 3 | Cos I 've not seen it with the curtains |
| 4 | The gospels do not furnish us with the materials for a modern-style biography , nor do they give us a window into Jesus ' mind by which we could peer into his inmost soul . |
| 5 | He could not reconcile it with the images he had preserved . |
| 6 | It has been a difficult day for the Queen and tonight she 's been snubbed following the decision by the municipality of Limassol not to present her with the keys to the town . |
| 7 | And while nobody wanted precisely to abandon the Fidchell which everybody enjoyed so much , there was really no reason why they could not play it with the Gnomes tonight and save Fenella for tomorrow , or even the day after . |
| 8 | We need not concern ourselves with the views expressed in newspapers which are wholly controlled by the state in totalitarian societies . |
| 9 | We need not concern ourselves with the details of Kant 's theory of Transcendental Ideas . |
| 10 | The point of this fracture between regulation broken and its consequences is that it facilitates corporate crime ; executives need only concern themselves with the likelihood of being leniently punished for breaking regulations , whilst ignoring its consequences for the law does not concern itself with the consequences either . |
| 11 | I wo n't bore you with the details of what happened next but the exercise was over and so was ‘ Daz 's ’ participation in the lesson . |
| 12 | I wo n't bore you with the details of our journey across southern England . |
| 13 | I would n't trust him with the keys . |
| 14 | The wages , he did n't trust her with the wages . |
| 15 | I wo n't trouble you with the percentages of votes cast for them as new managers in the various ballots . |
| 16 | you have to cos they ca n't do nothing with the bits , they give you all the bits |
| 17 | Did n't do it with the others , this has got a and a |
| 18 | That night , as often when she put Josh to bed , Clare held the most precious thing in her world close to her heart and felt guilty and ashamed that she was n't providing him with the things she thought she should . |
| 19 | left and I cut it up this morning before you got up and I could n't cut it with the scissors ! |
| 20 | Other causes of distortion include our reliance on our own pet theory of personality ( ‘ Its worked well so far ’ ) , selective perception ( ‘ I know what I want to hear ; do n't confuse me with the facts ’ ) , the so-called halo effect — forming opinions on one piece of information and generalizing from it to other pieces of information ( e.g. ‘ She was brilliant in the Geneva post ; she 'll be brilliant wherever we send her ’ ) , or its opposite , the horns effect ( ‘ He was hopeless in Paris . |
| 21 | You do n't get it with the batteries . |
| 22 | Do n't threaten her with the police , leaving home yourself or sending her away . |